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Asked: 2019-10-17 14:50:40 +0800 CST

bash: ./configure no such file or directory even after installing build essentials

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I'm trying to install gambas 3.0.0. I download the the file gambas3-3.0.0.tar.bz2 from here and i follow every step from here but i still get the same error bash: ./confugure: No such file or directory

I'm not sure if it's important but I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS on Parallels Desktop (Virtual machine in a mac)

software-installation bash gambas3

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    ./configure would be a local script (hence the ./ - which means "in the current directory") - if there is such a file, it's something that would be provided by the software you are trying to build, not by a system package.

    In this case, the gambas3-3.0.0.tar.bz2 tarball doesn't contain such a script, but it does contain a configure.ac file. That means that you need to go back one step, and generate the configure script from the configure.ac script using autoconf.

    The tarball appears to provide two additional autoconf wrapper scripts called reconf and reconf-all - I don't know which you should use, but I'd guess there's no harm in going the whole hog and running the latter. So the full sequence of commands becomes:

    ./reconf-all
./configure
make

    followed by sudo make install if everything is successful and you want to go ahead and install the software in the default locations (usually /usr/local for this kind of installation).

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